Explaining Turnbull govt victory: an opinion

[Darkoz]

[emoji15]

Chookocide

 

[Shrek]

Chickens were put on the earth for 3 reasons.
1. To be eaten.
2. To produce eggs to be eaten.
3. To have a dance named after it. ?

 

[bull]

He wasted $600m of taxpayer dollars paying out for thrashed out SKS', single shot .22s and Browning A5s, when the same result could have been achieved with just the licensing and not with the waste of money. Not to mention leading us into the BS never ending war in the middle east etc. Pisses me off every time I see that smarmy bastard on tv.

I come from a cattle station so I'm hardly an anti gun but but I struggle to understand how a licence change makes anyone hand in a gun. He paid for them because a bit of cash helps people feel better about handing over their guns.

 

[bozodos]

I come from a cattle station so I'm hardly an anti gun but but I struggle to understand how a licence change makes anyone hand in a gun. He paid for them because a bit of cash helps people feel better about handing over their guns.

The money was paid out for several reasons. One of which is that it is unconstitutional to seize people's property (fed govt at least) without compensation.

Secondly, making vast swathes of very commonly owned firearms Cat C and D overnight (which you probably know is like obtaining kryptonite to acquire licensing for, esp Cat D), it meant that it instantly created a black market supply of untraceable firearms, of an unknown quantity from those who chose not to hand them in.

If you didn't hand them in you were committing a criminal offence. No one knows how many are still floating out there, it's estimated conservatively that it's in the hundreds of thousands. I've seen guns turn up when people have died etc that were never registered, along with large quantities of ammo. The local gun shop still gets lots of them from here and there.